Elabajaba wrote:With that kind of hardware, you could easily be bringing in $50+/day. More on a good multipool or on some smaller coins (about $175/day but lowering quickly on darkcoin...)

As best I can tell, even with all this hardware, it all amounts to a few thousand megahashes per second. To put that into perspective, the hardware you normally buy to mine cryptocurrency range anywhere from fifty thousand megahases per second to fifteen million megahashes per second. You'd be lucky to mine a millionth of a bitcoin a day with both rigs running in tandem, and the power draw is so significant that you'd end up losing money via your utility bill each month. Trust me, ever since people realized that you could build and sell specialized hardware for mining, it has become utterly pointless to try and mine with anything else.

Tylertlat wrote:I'm still curious at how good that would be at farming. Anyway, what IS the purpose of those?

I dunno. They belong to my roommate Reid. He bought all the cards, and has them running some version of Ubuntu. I think he's trying to test the hardware to ensure that none of it is defective, but the purpose beyond that is unknown to me.

helvner wrote:man dust must be a small problem with that right?

Actually, temperature is the real problem. We've taped some filters to the window behind the rig to try and let in cool air, but spring is over here in Arizona, so that is no longer viable anymore. To put this into perspective, my computer is roughly fifteen feet away from the super rig. I left a pair of Reese's peanut butter cups on my desk, still in the wrapper yesterday. They melted.

Elabajaba wrote:With that kind of hardware, you could easily be bringing in $50+/day. More on a good multipool or on some smaller coins (about $175/day but lowering quickly on darkcoin...)

As best I can tell, even with all this hardware, it all amounts to a few thousand megahashes per second. To put that into perspective, the hardware you normally buy to mine cryptocurrency range anywhere from fifty thousand megahases per second to fifteen million megahashes per second. You'd be lucky to mine a millionth of a bitcoin a day with both rigs running in tandem, and the power draw is so significant that you'd end up losing money via your utility bill each month. Trust me, ever since people realized that you could build and sell specialized hardware for mining, it has become utterly pointless to try and mine with anything else.

That's why I said altcons, not bitcoin. Bitcoin not profitable except on asics, but some altcoins can get $5-10 on 500khash/sec, and a rig like that should get 6.7mhash/sec+, so it'll be a decent amount per day (if it costs less then $60 to run a day, it'll be profitable, just too really hard on the computer due to heat).

Rotaretilbo wrote:But then why aren't people just mining altcoins with ASICs and dominating the entire market, the way they do with every other cryptocurrency?

Because they haven't figured out how to use/create ASICs with non SHA256 coins, and the majority of altcoins are now scrypt (with even better algorithms coming out now). You end up with people that have massive gpu farms, or cpu server farms, or botnets, but its still a lot fairer for the average person that isn't gonna spend 10k+ for an ASIC.

So I talked to Reid about these altcoins, and he decided that it was time to make some money back on the super rigs. Rather than mining, he leases them out to someone else, who uses them to mine. He's making $62/day USD for this service.